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...Newspaper Guild struck the Baltimore Sun and other unions refused to cross the picket line, Baltimore has had no newspaper worthy of the name. The city's only other daily, Hearst's News-American, shut down in support of its competitor, and by last week a disheartened NLRB examiner saw no sign of an end to the strike. Management and the Guild, said he, "are at a total stalemate. If it isn't settled soon, I think it'll go on for a long time. At the bargaining sessions, they don't really discuss much...
...Darlington itself, Harlan ordered the NLRB to further probe "the purpose and effect" of the closing in relation to the combine's other workers. He left open for future review by the lower court the board's finding that Darlington was an integral part of Deering Milliken. Although this may yet bring the case back to the Supreme Court, the union joyously hailed the Darlington decision as a Waterloo for "large union-busting textile complexes in the South," which "can no longer play musical chairs with workers' lives and the welfare of textile communities...
Legal Lockouts. In two other cases, though, the court sharply rapped the NLRB for ruling that lockouts give employers "too much power." The court went far toward holding that lockouts are illegal only if designed for union busting-a point partly illustrated by the case of five retail grocers who bargained together against their clerks' union in Carlsbad...
According to the NLRB, the lockout would have been legal had the stores shut down. Disagreeing, the court said that the lockouts were legal because they were not "hostile" to the union; indeed the stores immediately rehired their union clerks after the strike. The lockouts were thus a legitimate "defensive measure to preserve the multiemployer group in the face of the whipsaw strike...
...this an unfair labor tactic? Yes, said the NLRB, because the lockout forced the unions to abandon their wage demands. Moreover, it was so timed that it nullified the unions' strike power during the company's most vulnerable period. The court sharply disagreed. The company showed no antiunion bias, said Justice Potter Stewart for the unanimous bench. Rather, it legally used the "bargaining lockout" as a corollary of the "bargaining strike." Lockouts may disrupt strike plans, but the right to strike does not include "the right exclusively to determine the timing and duration of all work stoppages...